Ties to extremists linked to the insurrection at the capitol still has room for liz cheney, a conservative stalwart, who had the audacity to hold donald trump accountable for the incitement of the riots in january 6th. Also on the line today, who will have the fortitude to go on the record against the real threat, a Conspiracy Theorist in its own ranks. Right now the republican conference is behind the closed doors ahead on a vote tomorrow to remove congresswoman greene from her Committee Appointments. A woman who is dubious about whether the attacks on 9 11 were real, endorsed calls to assassinate barack obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton. House Republican Leaders Kevin Mccarthy, for one, is reportedly feeling torn at this hour between cheney, a former State Department official, the daughter of conservative former Vice President dick cheney on one side, and a member of congress, Claire Mccaskill refers to as the q aknown lady. Reports of what went down inside the room. Mccarthy
speak of direct action, pressure that you mentioned, one of the things is you put your body on the line. you got arrested. i think more than once this year. i got a bunch of my friends go get arrested. wade henderson gave me great legal advice on the current state of affairs when it comes to scattered, staggering when you get arrested. just continuously getting others who want to get arrested, to just keep the pressure up, to participate in protests and various kinds of ways but also stay on the ground. while they are on recess and keep putting the pressure on. it has to be an inside/outside strategy along with continue to push the white house to do more. i m going to talk i ve got a direct message for president biden at the end of the show.
voter access and restricting voter access, and that s what you see, an inside/outside strategy happening with lawmakers, with activists, with organizers who all understand the stakes and what the consequences are depending on which one of those strategies prevails. you know, denver, president obama to his credit and i think because he and his family and his children lived with the consequences and the threats to their life that were sort of manufactured by and disseminated by the ring wing disinformation and specifically the ex-president and his birtherism campaign. there is a point though where if the other party has no shame and they are proudly and brazenly headed down this anti-democratic path, the other side needs to recalibrate, needs to adjust and needs to look at their own norms more critically, things like the filibuster. what do you make of sort of the asymmetry that remains in one
majority/minority, and when certain people talk about it you re already laughing about that, and yeah, once white people were 49% of the country, and everything is going to be great finally. they always left that out, for my people to be a minority, they need to assume all people of color are the same. as you were saying, your experience in that school proves it, we are pitted against each other to make sure we are not on the same team. yeah, and that s an inside/outside strategy, and inside pitting against each other, and outside they are pitting white people against the huge group, and it s like they think we are going to take power away, and i think why are you so afraid, that power is still there. if the structures of power are in place it s an ongoing battle against white supremacy.
actions. if you don t have people standing up and interrupting hillary clinton or interrupting bernie sanders or martin o malley, maybe those candidates are less likely you know, it s key. hillary clinton was rolling out the beginnings of her criminal justice reform platform and even in that space was still interrupted. that provides a new pressure, potentially creates a new space for even more political gains by some of these activists. we had a big conversation about this inside/outside strategy last week with two black lives matter activists. mayor, you ve been both inside and outside. as you watch these, both, continuing interruptions and sit-do si sit-down meetings. i think it is democracy at its best, that pressure that forces policy. it is absolutely what needs to happen. none of these things would be going on if folks weren t yelling black lives matter all over the country, they d still be saying all lives matters, except black people are the ones getting shot in the